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To what extent can we forgive an ending?

The Secret Talker by Geling Yan

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Hongmei has a secret admirer. Secret stalker might actually be a more apt descriptor. She receives emails from a mystery person recounting her day, what she wore, how she acted, who she was with, everything about her current life. Rather than share these emails with her husband, Glen, a well respected English professor, she keeps them secret and engages in a correspondence with this mystery person, this secret talker. She ends up sharing with this secret talker things she has never shared with anyone: her […]

dreams fill in where memories fail

Space Invaders by Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer

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If you too are seeking respite from this surprisingly hot Saturday, I whole-heartedly recommend spending an hour curled up in front of a fan while reading Space Invaders from cover to cover. This is the second fictional account of being a child in Pinochet’s Chile to rise through my TBR pile this year; How to Order the Universe offered one girl’s story, while Space Invaders  trades dreams and memories from a chorus of children who grew up too soon against the terror of the 1980s. Unlike the precocious […]

Coffee with a shot of kink

Cup of Joe by Annabeth Albert

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When I saw there was a new queer shared series coming out that several of my favorite authors were writing in, I had to pick up the first book. The Bold Brew series revolves around a coffee shop in a Pennsylvania college town that’s a hub for the queer and kink-positive communities. “Hot, older electrician. Bedroom repair. If it wasn’t for me and my terminal awkwardness, this could easily pass as the start of a porno.” This book features Levi, a recent college grad who’s […]

Spiders, Grasshoppers, and Bears, Oh My!

(Trust) Falling for You by Charish Reid

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What an enjoyable snack of a book this was. I was reminded a few days ago that I had bought (Trust) Falling for You as a birthday gift to myself back in February and I snuck it into my weekend reading line up. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it is a novella, I hadn’t realized, but a 120-page story was just the right size for my mood. Charish Reid specializes in writing stories featuring people of color in higher education and their love […]

Murderbot is back and hosin’ hostiles once again, baybee

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

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Murderbot, my misanthropic friend! Welcome back- back to the PAST! There had been a lot of scuttlebutt floating around telling us that this would be a novella (hooray- I think the novel format dragged the last entry down), and that it would be a prequel. Hmmm. A prequel? Right after a satisfying promise of adventures with returning beloved characters? Booo! Once again, I stand by eating my big ol’ helping of crow pie while Martha Wells proves, once again, that I should trust the author […]



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